Backup series

[miniz98 73]

Is there a way to backup my series schedule? I have spent allot of time setting them all up for my hdhomerun and I’m afraid if I have to reinstall or upgrade my computer I will lose this. Thanks

Edited January 29, 2018 by miniz98

[kanipek 230]

Is there a way to backup my series schedule? I have spent allot of time setting them all up for my hdhomerun and I’m afraid if I have to reinstall or upgrade my computer I will lose this. Thanks

Currently there is not a way to do this officially. Would be nice.

 

I think the issue lies with how each channel/show is identified in Emby. From what I understand rebuilding and configuring Emby on a new or existing machine changes those identifiers.

 

That being said for an existing installation - one that is not rebuilt/configured you can save a copy of seriestimers.json and timers.json and if there is an issue - corruption etc you can replace them with a backup. They are found in: C:\Users\xxx\AppData\Roaming\Emby-Server\programdata\data\livetv\seriestimers.json.

 

If you do have to rebuild Emby at some point you can use the backup copy - But as a reference only--> rebuild and configure the server and when finished you can copy the backed up files into the new Emby install, Emby will read them and let you see what you were recording in the previous installation, from there you have two options you can select a series, cancel it and the reschedule the series -OR- You can also edit the series settings and select it to record from all channels.

 

I have done this many times and it does work. It is not an automatic process by any means but not difficult.

 

You will need a current copy of the files so use a script and schedule a task to do the backup.

@[member="Echo"] off
set date="%date:~4,2%-%date:~7,2%-%date:~10,4%"
mkdir "E:\My Files\Downloads\Software\Emby\LiveTV-Backup\%date%\"
COPY "C:\Users\xxxx\AppData\Roaming\Emby-Server\programdata\data\livetv" "E:\My Files\Downloads\Software\Emby\LiveTV-Backup\%date%\*.json"

Something like that - creates a dated folder and copies the files into it.

[Luke 42080]

Yes this is something we still need to add, thanks.

[miniz98 73]

Outstanding response. I really appreciate you explaining this. I will do this. Thanks again. Too bad the backup doesn’t allow this to be saved.